HINDSIGHT is omnipotent but the bookies clearly got the price of Different League wrong in the Albany Stakes eight days ago. The powerful filly returned at 20/1 but connections had helped themselves to five times that price, and plenty around Bansha did likewise.

The bookies weren’t the only ones to misjudge Different League however. Bansha House Stables supremo Con Marnane had bought her for just €8,000 at the Mares and Foals Sale in Arqana in December 2015 and had seen enough in her development subsequently to believe he would turn a little profit.